Social Maturity Level Assessment for Graduates Test

How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Like it
- Rather like it than dislike it
- Not sure
- Rather dislike it than like it
- Dislike it
- Yes
- Rather yes than no
- Not sure
- Rather no than yes
- No
- Yes
- Yes, rather than no
- Not sure
- No, rather than yes
- No
Social Maturity Level Assessment for Graduates Test - Description and methodology of the test
People approaching the transition from school into further study, work, or independent living can use the Social Maturity Level Assessment for Graduates Test to examine how their goals and decisions fit together. Its result provides a social maturity assessment of readiness for adult roles and can prompt focused reflection on autonomy, responsibility, and future planning.
What This Assessment Measures
The questionnaire treats social maturity as readiness for adult roles. It examines goals, independent decisions, educational motivation, career direction, ability to carry out plans, and civic interest. For someone choosing further education or work, it can serve as a graduate readiness assessment of whether plans seem autonomous and realistic.
The Social Maturity Level is scored from 0-72: Critical 0-35, Acceptable 36-53, and Optimal 54-72. Critical reflects low study interest and limited readiness for independent living; Acceptable reflects uncertainty and outside influence; Optimal reflects formed values, realistic prospects, and autonomous decisions.
The questions cluster around these practical areas:
- Educational motivation shows what makes study meaningful: knowledge, development, work, approval, or pressure.
- Life planning shows how clearly future choices are formed and owned.
- Independence reflects confidence in carrying out plans and living as an adult.
- Civic interest indicates attention to public, cultural, environmental, and legal issues.
Methodology and Evidence Base
Responses mix graded liking and yes/no choices with multiple-selection items requiring two or three answers. This captures attitude strength alongside reasons for educational, professional, and civic preferences. The result is one composite score, but point values for individual answers are not specified; weights should not be inferred from the displayed score.
The closest published reference is the Social Maturity of Graduates Method by Kozhevnikova and colleagues, published in 2003. The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with its focus on education, life direction, independence, and responsibility, but it is not a verified adaptation or standardized reproduction. Bersteneva's 2014 work connects social maturity with a socially active personality, while Popovici's 2024 work treats psychological and social maturity as related dimensions.
These sources provide context, not norms for this online version. The result categories offer interpretive guidance rather than population-validated thresholds. As a social maturity questionnaire, it depends on honest self-report, current circumstances, and self-awareness; one score can organize reflection but cannot establish a stable trait without broader assessment over time.
- Kozhevnikova, T. N., Stumbris, N. A., & Sundukova, T. A. (2003). Methodology for Identifying the Level of Social Maturity of Graduates. Klassny rukovoditel, 6, 97-107.
- Bersteneva, S. V. (2014). Social Maturity of Senior Pupils as a Factor in the Formation of a Socially Active Personality. In Society, Culture, Personality: Current Problems of Socio-Humanitarian Knowledge: Materials of the IV International Scientific Conference (pp. 88-91). Prague: Sociosphere-CZ.
- Popovici, Adriana. (2024). Factor analysis: psychological and social maturity of personality. Akademos, 2(73), 152-158. 10.52673/18570461.24.2-73.17
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